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- Microsoft Windows 95
- Driver Installation Guide
- 12 September 1995
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- Hercules Graphite Terminator products
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-
- CONTENTS:
- Introduction
- About The Windows 95 Display Driver Diskette
- Installing Windows 95 After You've Installed Your Hercules Product
- Which Driver Do I Choose?
- Installing Your Hercules Card Into a Windows 95 System
- Using The Display Properties Dialog Box
- Setting The Refresh Rate
- How Do I Get Help?
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- This guide contains the information you need to install our Windows 95
- drivers for the Hercules product. We recommend that you use our drivers
- instead of the supplied Microsoft driver.
-
- One of the best features of Windows 95 is its adaptability to the way
- you work. No matter what the task, there's probably more than one way
- of accomplishing it. This is certainly true with the installation of
- display drivers. There are a few ways you can go about installing the
- drivers, so rather than document every possible route you might choose
- to take, we've covered a few possible methods. No matter how you install
- the display drivers, Windows 95 makes it very intuitive, so it's hard
- to go wrong.
-
- These instructions apply to the first retail release of Windows 95.
- If you're still using an interim build, the procedure may go a bit
- differently. As we've mentioned above, however, the intuitive Windows
- 95 interface makes it hard to make a mistake, so we doubt that you'll
- run into any problems.
-
-
-
- About the Windows Display Driver Diskette
- =========================================
-
- The Windows Display Driver Diskette contains drivers for both
- Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. The Windows 95 drivers are contained in a
- directory called \WIN95. Whenever you're asked to insert the diskette
- containing your Windows 95 drivers, insert our Windows Display Driver
- Diskette and specify the drive letter (A: or B:), followed by the \WIN95
- directory. For example:
-
- A:\WIN95
-
- Nothing will go wrong if you forget to specify the \WIN95 directory
- after the drive letter (you don't need to worry about installing the
- Windows 3.1 drivers by mistake), but you'll be prompted for the correct
- drive and directory until you add \WIN95 to the drive letter.
-
-
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- Installing Windows 95 After You've Installed Your Hercules Product
- ==================================================================
-
- If your Hercules card is already in your system when you install Windows
- 95, you have two choices: you may install the high-resolution drivers as
- part of the Windows 95 installation procedure, or you may wait until
- after Windows 95 has been installed and select our high resolution
- drivers using the Display Properties dialog box. If you'd like to use
- this method, see "Using The Display Properties Dialog Box" below. To
- install our drivers as part of the Windows 95 installation procedure,
- insert our Windows Display Driver Diskette and specify the \WIN95
- directory when prompted by the Hardware Installation Wizard. Depending
- on the model you're installing, you may be asked to choose from a short
- list of drivers. See "Which driver Do I Choose?" below. Later on, you
- can select your desktop area, color palette, and monitor type using the
- Display Properties dialog box. See "Using The Display Properties Dialog
- Box" below.
-
-
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- Which driver Do I Choose?
- =========================
-
- Product Name Bus | Choose this driver
- Type |
- -------------------------------+----------------------------------------------
- Terminator 32/DRAM VL | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 32/DRAM
- Terminator 32/DRAM PCI | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 32/DRAM
- |
- Terminator 64/DRAM VL | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 64/DRAM
- Terminator 64/DRAM PCI | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 64/DRAM
- |
- Terminator 64/VRAM VL | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 64/VRAM
- Terminator 64/VRAM PCI | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 64/VRAM
- |
- Terminator Professional VL | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator Professional
- Terminator Professional PCI | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator Professional
- |
- Terminator 64/Video VL | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 64/Video
- Terminator 64/Video PCI | [Hercules] Graphite Terminator 64/Video
-
-
-
- Installing Your Hercules Product Into a Windows 95 System
- =========================================================
-
- If you've already installed Windows 95 on your system, installing your
- new Hercules card is easy. Remove your old graphics card and install
- your new Hercules product according to the instructions in our
- Installation Guide, and then start your PC.
-
- After Windows 95 starts, a dialog box titled "New Hardware Found" will
- appear, and you'll be given a few options for installing the display
- driver. Choose Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer, then
- insert our Windows Display Driver Diskette into your diskette drive.
- Specify the \WIN95 directory on the diskette.
-
- Depending on the model of you're installing, you may be asked
- to choose from a short list of drivers. See "Which driver Do I Choose?"
- above. Later on, you can select your desktop area, color palette, and
- monitor type using the Display Properties dialog box. See "Using The
- Display Properties Dialog Box" below.
-
-
-
- Using The Display Properties Dialog Box
- =======================================
-
- The Display Properties dialog box may be used for installing (or
- reinstalling) a display driver or monitor adapter, or choosing your
- desktop area (resolution), color palette (pixel depth), and system font
- size.
-
- You may open this dialog box at any point within Windows 95 by
- clicking on the desktop with the right mouse button and selecting
- Properties from the pop-up menu, or by launching My Computer by double
- clicking its icon, selecting Control Panel, and then selecting Display.
-
- From the Display Properties dialog box, select the Settings menu. From
- here you may select your desktop area, color palette, and system font
- size. To select a display or monitor driver, click the "Change Display
- Type..." button near the bottom of the dialog box. This brings up the
- Change Display Type dialog box.
-
- If you'd like to install or reinstall your display driver, click the
- "Change..." button in the "Adapter Type" section. This displays the
- Select Device dialog box. If the driver for your Hercules product does
- not appear, insert our Windows Display Driver Diskette into your
- diskette drive, click Have Disk..., and specify the \WIN95 directory on
- the diskette.
-
- Depending on the model you're installing, you may be asked to
- choose from a short list of drivers. See "Which driver Do I Choose?"
- above. Remember to click Apply when you are back on the Settings menu.
-
- To ensure that Windows 95 offers you all the resolutions that your card
- and your monitor support, you'll want to tell Windows 95 what model of
- monitor you have by clicking the "Change..." button in the "Monitor
- Type" section. Choose your monitor model (or, if your monitor is not
- listed, one of the standard monitor types) from the Select Device dialog
- box. However, this will not automatically set the refresh rate at which
- your card and monitor will operate. See "Setting The Refresh Rate,"
- below, for instructions.
-
- Setting The Refresh Rate
- ========================
-
- Products in the Terminator family use the SETCRT.EXE program to set the
- refresh rates at which the card will operate at various resolutions and
- pixel depths. If you installed Windows 95 onto a PC in which you were
- already running Windows 3.1 with your Hercules product, you probably
- already have SETCRT.EXE in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- If you're installing your Terminator into a system that's already
- running Windows 95, you'll want to add the SETCRT.EXE line to your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT so you can use your card and monitor at high refresh rates.
- With this driver release, you have your choice of two methods for doing
- this:
-
- 1. Run the DOS-based INSTALL.EXE program according to the instructions
- in our Installation Guide. It will help you select your monitor
- model, and then place the appropriate SETCRT line in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- 2. If you're handy with a text editor and you're familiar with your
- monitor's capabilities, you can place the SETCRT.EXE command in
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT file manually. Our Installation Guide contains a
- table of SETCRT parameters for your Terminator product.
-
- NOTE: DO NOT choose a monitor model or standard monitor type that
- supports refresh rates that are higher than your monitor can support.
- If you do, you may permanently damage your monitor. If you are unsure
- of what monitor model or standard monitor type to select, please refer
- to the documentation on your monitor or contact the manufacturer.
-
- If you've placed the SETCRT.EXE command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT but you're
- not getting the refresh rates you think you should be, get in touch with
- us and we'll give you the assistance you need.
-
-
- How Do I Get Help?
- ==================
-
- Please see our Installation Guide or the README.TXT file on our
- Installation Diskette for complete instructions for contacting us.
- We'll be happy to help you with any questions or difficulties you may
- have.
-
- We've set up a page on our Internet World Wide Web site just for Windows
- 95 users. It contains the latest information on Windows 95 drivers and
- utilities, as well as the answers to our most frequently asked
- questions, so you'll want to check it first before contacting us. The
- URL is:
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- http://www.hercules.com/support/Win95/
-
- We're on a very aggressive Windows 95 development schedule, so if
- you have an Internet e-mail address, be sure to join the mailing
- list to keep up on the latest news. Complete instructions for
- subscribing to this service are in our Installation Guide as well as
- the README.TXT file on the Installation Diskette.
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